Social Firms Europe CEFEC believes in the creation of employment for people facing barriers to the labour market because of disability or disadvantage

Social Firms

Social Firms are one type of social enterprise; their specific social purpose is to create sustainable paid employment for people who are either disabled or severely disadvantaged in the labour market. These are businesses that use their market-orientated production of goods or services to achieve their social mission and they exist all over Europe, albeit at different stages of development and with different levels of intervention/recognition/legal status.

It is cheaper for any government to have people with severe disadvantages in work than out of work for the rest of their lives. The ethos of Social Firms is to CREATE the jobs that can be filled by people with severe disadvantages by employers that understand their support needs and who are committed to this objective.

European Social Firm of the Year Award 2017

This Year we continue with the SFE CEFEC tradition to award the Social Firm which presents best according to the attached Registration Form.

We hope that you will encourage your own social firm or other social firms in the orbit of SFE CEFEC movement. First of all, we are thinking of SFE CEFEC members, but befriended social firms can also apply. Please take this to your organization and prepare the following:

The 30-th Annual Conference of Social Firms Europe CEFEC 2017

The 30th Annual Conference of Social Firms Europe CEFEC will take place in Linz, Austria in the period 28-29 of September 2017.

The event will be organized by SFE CEFEC and Pro mente Austria in cooperation with Pro mente OÖ. The main objective of the conference is to present the new challenges for jobholders to meet the requirements of digital economies and the impact of a digitalized society on everyday work and commercial relevance of social firms in digital economies.